Fitting the adventra rear garnish to a vz wagon

[Lex]

@Lex I think we are over thinking this.

You got a 6 speed to work in yours.
You Frankensteined the front bar.
Why not just go the Adventra tail gate. Then use an Adventra rear bar with VT-VZ wagon sides. Just do the same thing you did with the front. Then there is no cutting and welding needed on the tail gate.

The Adventra is all the same underneath as a wagon. Just has the flared arches on the rear bar.

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I'm gunna give it a go?!
Don't know how long it'll take?

Got to get the parts first.

May take a couple of years? Maybe longer?

 

[Exogator]

Or he could just cut the inner corners out the oe bar and fibreglass it square

 

[Exogator]

Here's a reference photo of another boot with a commo bar, marked the area that needs to go on the oe bar just for visual aid.

 

[Exogator]

I'm gunna give it a go?!

Feel free to hit me up for help, might have to wait a bit for reply but I'm happy to help

 

[Lex]

Feel free to hit me up for help, might have to wait a bit for reply but I'm happy to help

Thanks.
Ist step, look for necessary parts.

 

[Exogator]

Thanks.
Ist step, look for necessary parts.

If you fell like parting a car there's a whole white addy in Melbourne with a timing chain issue for $1500, you'd make most of that back with the driveline alone

 

[Exogator]

Ive been toying with an idea for another tailgate stap for a while now.
I want to recreate a Hz wagon style fold down and up gate. I think it'll be "easy" using the ute tailgate as the bottom as it works esentially the same, then drastically shortening a wagon gate as a top and have it latch to the bottom. Not sure if that'd need to be engineered of not tho.
Even still I've got 2 spare wagon gates and a whole parts car so I guess I can still have a play xD

 

[Fu Manchu]

I think plastic welding the two bars together would be the go. Especially seeing @Lex has done that before with the front bar. It’s a work of art.

Like this one going the other way by plastiwelding the Stato bar into the Adventra bar.

 

[Exogator]

I think plastic welding the two bars together would be the go. Especially seeing @Lex has done that before with the front bar. It’s a work of art.

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Like this one going the other way by plastiwelding the Stato bar into the Adventra bar.

Lowered addys look kinda gross.
I've been trying to find that same stato bar so I can graft it to a stock grille on, I like the lower half but not the bonnet.

 

[figjam]

I want to recreate a Hz wagon style fold down and up gate. I think it'll be "easy" using the ute tailgate as the bottom as it works esentially the same, then drastically shortening a wagon gate as a top and have it latch to the bottom. Not sure if that'd need to be engineered of not tho.

That would be a magic modification, a la the EH wagon.



The models after this, with the wind-up rear window leaked dust and water as if it were magnetic. At least my HJ did.
My VZ with a hard lid and a bit of extra foam up the sides of the tailgate has never leaked dust or water.